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Old 09-08-2010, 02:41 PM   #52
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could you people give me a critical analysis of any mistakes in the above above idea?
This could be a good starting point for study of a really good compression algorithm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip

Bzip is open source, so you can study it and try to improve.
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